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TruckBeat is an interactive health storytelling project featuring the voices and images of East Tennessee. We take our bread truck turned mobile studio out on the road to report on community health topics in depth: addiction, obesity, mental health, access to health care – and why zip code may matter more to health than genetics. TruckBeat is independently produced by Jess Mador. The award-winning project originally launched in 2015 in collaboration with Knoxville public radio station WUOT's Matt Shafer Powell, and part of AIR's 15-city Localore: #Finding America initiative.